Free-To-Play Games You Might Want To Try Out During Steam’s Cyberpunk Fest

Once again, another Fest is underway on Steam, proving once again that there’s a video game for everyone. This time, the focus is games with a cyberpunk theme. Although, some might feel more “cyberpunk” than others. The fest runs until August 10, so players have limited amount of time to pick out games to try. That is, except for the ones that are free-to-play anyway.

Unlike the last Fest, this one has a pretty solid selection of free-to-play games. So, we won’t just be dropping the entire list. But, that’s okay. If you have the time and inclination, you can just check out the Cyberpunk Fest page.

As mentioned above, some games fit the theme more than others. For instance, the first game that comes up when you narrow the price down to free games is Neverness To Everness. As a player of the game, it doesn’t really fit what I’d consider cyberpunk. It’s just too cheery. Two other games, at the top of the list are part of Waifu Gala 2026 (something I had no idea existed until looking at this list), which you’ll probably want to steer kiddies away from.

Project Glitch

What happens when a parasitic substance named “Glitch” turns organic life into machines? Or, something machine-like? That’s the focus of Project Glitch, an action-adventure RPG developed by a team of students. (Apparently, it took them 6 months to complete.)

Players take on the role of STRYX, the one character who seems to have avoided being completely transformed and now fights the Glitch by traveling to the origin of the outbreak. The game features souls-like combat with swords and guns.

Sequence Storm

This one’s not a dark cyberpunk game, but it does feature futuristic cars and cool music. The game offers players a variety of ways to play, supporting different key configurations and input devices. It also includes 28 tracks and 28 story missions. There’s even a track editor. And for the competitives, leaderboards have been included.

All Walls Must Fall

For those looking for something a bit more tactical, but still musical, All Walls Must Fall is an isometic tactics game in which players control time traveling secret agents looping through the same night in Berlin. The game features procedurally generated levels with a campaign that changes every time it’s played, partially because players can use time travel to experience different outcomes. Oh, yes, and this all seems to take place in night clubs.

Retrograde Arena

If you’re down for a little twin stick shooter action, then you might want to give Retrograde Arena a go. Interestingly, the goal in this one isn’t to just shoot the enemy to death, but instead to use your weapons to move the environment around. Effectively physics are your weapon and defense as you use your weapon to move yourself and other objects around. The game supports up to four players both via the internet or LAN.

Sentience

Who’s up for a little futuristic hide-and-seek? In this game, two teams of four fight to control the society left behind by humanity. Play as either a Rogue or a Sentinel. As you’d probably expect, Rogues try to avoid being found while the Sentinels try to catch them. During matches, Rogue players will need to complete missions like delivering armed crates in order to escape. The players’ bots are customizable, with players even able to acquire special emotes like the Chicken Dance and Jazz Hands.

Neon Wings: Air Race

This is another racing game. Except this one takes place in the air. Players can challenge themselves in three different game modes: tournament, time trial, and single race across four race types: Knockout, Elimination, Rush, and Standard. There are also five tournaments of varying difficulties.

Of course, the game features customization options as well. There are ten for the hangar, including things like minigames and lighting, as well as a dozen upgradeable ships and eleven different custom paints for each.

Hyperblade

Hyperblade is a dashing-only slasher game that’s been out for a while. Interestingly, it was apparently buy-to-play but as the dev hasn’t updated for a while, they’ve decided to make it free. It’s effectively what it sounds like. Players can only move by dashing and need to do things like kick off of walls to attack their foes.

Arcadegeddon

Team up with up to three friends to save a local arcade from a megacorp by playing a game. Sounds legit to me. The co-op roguelite shooter features several biomes where players will fight a diverse cast of enemies. In addition to the shooting, there are mini games to be completed and hidden chests to be found. And yes, there are also rewards to be had.

Glass Wings

This third-person parkour game is exactly what it sounds like. There’s not combat, no guns, and even no story. Even the environment is minimalist. Just run through the city.

It is worth noting that this will be a short game, as it’s a 20 minute proof of concept. But if you enjoy parkour games, I’d say “free” is a pretty fair price for 20 minutes of entertainment.

Saturn

Take a trip to the moons of Saturn in 2062 and control robots to explore an underground city that hides secrets about deep space. Communication is now achieved via something called ether threads which allows for exploration using machines. This means that exploration can be done without leaving Earth, even allowing research stations to be set up on Saturn’s moons.

Unfortunately, scanners have picked up something bad and time is running out as the machines turn on humanity. It’s up to the player, in the role of a scientist to try to prevent the end of the world.